The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1945, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME XLVI. No. 101 TWO LETTERS SENT TO ERNEST COE BEARING ON NATIONAL PARK COMMANDER CORYDON WASSELL TO GIVE TALK ‘AT NAVY YARD MONDAY Comdr. Corydon M. Wassell, Sts! fff ff (MC) USN, whose heroic exploits were filmed by Paramount and INTRODUCE NEW BILL FOR MONROE titled “The Story of Dr. Wassell”, By Ansoctated Press) will speak in the Naval Station ball park Monday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock, TALLAHASSEE, Aoril 27. —Representative B. C. Papy today introduced HB428, pro- He is expected to tell about his viding for the appointment of experiences in caring for wound- ed Naval personnel in Java and an assistant. State Attorney for Monroe County. . getting them safely to Australia following the Japanese conquest of this island in the early days of the Pacific war. For this feat, se Doctor Wassell was awarded the Ml IM he bude CLonheal Navy Cross. a All civilian employees attached 4 to the Naval Operating Base are invited by Captain C. E. Reordan,; Base Commander to hear Dr. Wassell’s talk and to give all em- ployees the opportunity, those on | TOMES AN AR the day shift will be let off duty before 5:15 and those on the FREQUENT VISITOR TO KEY: WEST; BOUGHT HOME HERE evening shift will be permitted to report in immediately after the lecture. Captain Reordan has also invited the families of civilian employees to attend. - Doctor Wassell is widely known! Robert S. Allen, who, for many in Key West having formerly | years, edited a widely circulated been attached to the Naval Oper-| Washington column with Drew ating Base. He reported for duty | Pearson, and who had been a fre- THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE Representative B. C. Papy has taken a hand in the discussion) about the proposed Everglades |National Park, and to what ex-| tent will be explained by the fol-} lowing letfer he sent to Ernest F. Coe, director: Your letter of April 20th re- ceived and I note that you are deeply disappointed over the remarks 1 made on the Floor of | the House of Representatives in regard to taking in the Bay Bottom: Lands and part of the Key’ Largo and Lower: Mate- cumbe Keysi The people of my coutity are strictly opposed to taking in the Bay ‘Bottony lands ond Nels! hy part’ of the. Flor- Rida’ ‘Keys’ for ' the’ Everglades Nationa! Park, and I am only expretsing the voice of my peo- ple when I express my views on the Floor of the House; I sincerely hope this is an Ever- glades National Park instead of a Florida Keys National Park. For your information, Fort Jefferson, whcih is a National (Monument, has signs all over the fishing area that you are | not to remove any fish ard that no fishing will be per- here in September, 1940, and was'quent visitor in Key West and assigned to the Naval Station| later bought a home here, has had} dispensary. When it was evident/@" arm amputated, according to} that this country would become information County Attorney involved in a war with Japan, he. Julius F. Stone, Jr., received to- requested duty in the Pacific, but ; 4Y- being in his late fifties, the Doc-!| When this country entered the tor doubted that the Navy would; Wat, Mr. Allen turned over the assign him to combat agtion, if a|Ccoluin wholly to Mr. Pearson} veal war emergency should arise,|@9d enlisted in the military in- This doubt was dispelled in! telligence division of the United September 1941, when he left States Army, and has since been Key West with orders for Cavite ,@dvanced to the rank of colonel.; atid was to have sailed from San! He was ambushed while with mitted within the area desig- nated as the Ft. Jefferson Na- | tional Park The keeper of that Park sometime back destroyed the turtle nets of fishermen and | also put some fishermen in jail for catching conchs for com- mercial use, so I wish you would check into this matter and find out for yourself just what happens to the Bay Bot- tom Lands when they are taken over for National Monument or National Parks, Piancisco on December. %.. Thig, 8" advanced, unit :in Germany, sailing was delayed and that des-| and his arm was so badly mangl- Wnation changed. At the end of 4 it had to be cut off January be began his Java as. Before the war, he was a fam-| p> al iia figure in, Key “West riding | On February 4, the ctuisers 2bout town, stripped 16, the waist, | Mwustoh and Marbichead were in ©" 4 bicycle. He had acquired a a@ion off the Java coast. Badly heavy coat of tan during his last battered by a much heavier Jap- ‘iP here. aftese force, they yet managed to _ Mr. Allen had traveled widely lip inte port, and Doctor Was- >Ut he said that Key West ap sell, just arrived on the island, Was among those detailed to care for the wounded Dr Wassell remained with these men, knowing that he Three Realty Deals would be captured by the enemy, ' but he decided to make a desper- Are Recorded Here ate attempt to get the men out of dave. He asked all of them if they The following realiy transfers wished to take the chance and| Were recorded today in the coun- ali agreed. He first had to get the ‘Y_clerk’s office: 12 men to the seacoast. The men’ Bertha J. Symonette te Frank were suffering severely but Doc. P- Mendez, a lot on Amelia street, tor Wassell kept them alive with @@oeining the convent property, $400. The lot is 47.6 by 81.6 fect. Forty acres in the Everglades section of Monroe county were sold by William H. Derbyshire to I. A. Morris for $400. Harry Trofford sold 25 acres in the Everglades to Wesley G. Cook for $200 home more so than any locality he had visited. his skill and inspired them by his own courage. PYTHIAN GROUP GOES TO MIAMI Several members of Key Lodge, Knights of Pythias, left this morning for Miami to attend meeting tonight of Kaaba Tem- ple, Dramatic Order, Knights of Khorassan In the Russeil DeLand J Old Cot Spivey West —______. Harold Shapiro At. Harold Shapiro, who passed an examination a short time ago to become a lawyer, this morning took the oath before Circuit Judge Joseph Otto and, on mo- tion of Attorney Enrique Esqui- naldo, Jr., was admitted to the Florida bar party Are rR ¢ J Sjursen, schran. Dr and Winfield J. R Arthur Delio F we t r re nt Gibson J Mrs. Wm. Jackson Going To New York Bremen Tea Party Really Got Hot M daughite M Bak New Y Ie hust who i wi ham Mr Jackson, Mrs. Harry tonight fo join Jack- om duty there. ‘PALACE THEATER GENE AUTRY in “MELODY TRAIL” News and Serial E and (By A ng LONDON table tea came in handy when a British bomber caught fire over Bremen. Sgt. G. W. Lane of the A. F. won the D. F. M. for us- ing tea out of flasks to extinguish the blaze. r unde son now ELKS CHARITY FUND BINGO "OPENS SATURDAY NIGHT New Location CORNER DUVAL AT SOUTHARD PEARL BARFIELD, Manager HYDRAULIC BRAKE SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service | White at Fleming Phone 5| ~ 4 am Barracks” | | Mr. realed to him as the place for his} other Admitted To Bar | -Today. Stephen. C: mailed the following ‘Coe: Your letter to the Commit- tee, Captain Demcvitt, William Arnold and Fred Eberhardt has | been submitted to them. I am. today in receipt of two Singleton letter to PRESCRIPTION | @0cccevcccccccccces | By LOUIS LOCHNER AP Newsfeatures LONDON, April 27. — A noted German physician who managed to escape Gestapo clutches and! now is safely out of the country says it would be folly for the United Nations to hope for revo: lution within Germany in vicv of the tight grip held by Himm lem. “Thousands of little fires of re-| bellion are burning throughout the Reich,” he said,. “but they are constantly being put out they can unite with others into a big blaze “Besides, the plus Gestapo blunted constructive thinking. Using his home town, Kicl, as an example, the doctor ¢laimed jenthusiasm for Naziism ox ‘tremely low. Even among Ger jmans enrolled as party memiers, jhe said only five per cent showed jfanatical belief in the Fuehrer and the movement. He labeled 60 per cent as unprincipled time ,servers who now regret ever hav ing joined, and says 30,per cent enrolled because they had to, andi five per cent totally indif- ferent. How cowed the average Ger- }man is by Gestapo terrorism was before} val persecution teachings} have political is are tht others | with him, he made his escape {had conspired to fice among them doctors, and apothecaries, moment for breakout came, | they all faltered, fearing the con- | sequences of possible capture. Yet when the | | a | ~ MIDGET BAR The Friendly Little Tavern SIMONTON AND GREENE STS Complete Line of Known Brand: PACKAGE GOODS Choice Wine, Whisky, Rum and Brandy 4 Pints — Pints and Quarts} “The Best of Dainks” | een ecetee teat nee Nene | | even i this fone j quickly i tions at clergymen ; 900 FL The Key West Citizen U.S. A. — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945 flimsies; one a copy of your let- ter to Mr. Newton B. Druczy and the other a copy of Mr. Papy’s letter to you. Mr. Papy has Cor- rectly interpreted the general opinion here and it is unfor- tunate that such an opinion has been created. largely by ex- travagent claims and apparent neglect to consider the view- point of Mr. Papy’s con- stituents. I am hopeful that with a modification of the claims on Key Leazgo, with the shifting boundary of the Florida Bay Part of the Park from the high water mark on the Keys to the Western side of the Intra-coas- tal wate:Way. 2 definite pro- gress has been made toward ar- tiving at an understanding. There is one more thing to be Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in.the - country, with an average “range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS S JOIN FORCES * 'SENATE PASSES:ELEVEN HOUSE | | | BILLS OFFERED BY REP. PAPY) (iby Aasocinted Press) TALLAHASSEE, April 27. —} HB269 — Relieving Frank H.} The senate yesterday passed 11) Ladd of all liability to the board; jhouse bills offered by Rep. Bernie| of public instruction for overpay-| Papy. They were: ments to him that were validated, HB162—Fixing salary of Mon-|and confirmed by the board. | jroe criminal court of record judge| HB50—Pertaining to’ election of! at $300 a month. county commissioners. | HB163—Proving for payment! HB152—Fixing the salary ef) jef Monroe county criminal court}the Monroe county school board jof record solicitor of $4,200 a\chairman at $75 a month, jyear. } HBI56 — Creating an clective | HB153—Setting fee of $7.50 for|office of the county attorney. {Monroe circuit court clerk for! HB157—Guarantecing Monroe services in civil actions. tax assessor net compensation of HB155 — Authorizing payment !$6,000 a year. of $3,500 a year for Monroe} HB239 — Releasing Claude A. {county tax assessor's office ex-|Gandolfo, Monroe tax. assessor, ‘ penses, |from all liability to the board of HB49—Guarantecing expenses; public ‘instruction for overpay- of the tax collector. {ments to him, | | | | \ | ! { i : | CCC ORCCCCCCCOCCC® Officially Announced Today That East Meets West And Cuts Germany In Two SAILORS TURNED OVER TO COUNTY CHARGED WITH HAVING STOLEN AUTOMOBILE IN KEY WEST President Truman Com- ments On Great Event Declares European War Nearing End (By Annoctated Prens) WASHINGTON, Apr. 27. The governments of the Big Three, the United States, Great Britain and Russia, to- day simultaneously announc- James EK. Sargent and William B. Brewer, sailors, who were ar rested at Homestead on a charge, of having stolen Adrian Ole) ed ‘that ‘American and Rus- Sweeney's automobile, were this, sian troops had formed a morning turned over to Sheriff juncture 75 miles south of Berlin Sawyer by the naval auth-| Berlin. orities in Key West. The defend-| The great event occurred definitely settled. I shall op- Pose, and I believe I will not | COMMUNITY SERVICE IS NOW be alone. a proposition which j leaves our Commercial fisher~ men ‘tenants at will’ in the Bay of Florida. ‘ Without an agricultural back Country, and far removed from the industrial centecs, the fish- { ing industry is our livlihood.. \ It is certainly not beyond the Fower of !eqal skill to write an irrevocable covenant assuring us that fishing in the Bay of Flozida will be governed by State law and not by Park rules, Tem not interested in what treatment we may “expect.” Directors come and go; rules aré subject to change and.our_ living is at stake. It seems. to me that this is self-evident, I fully apreciate the great edvantages thet will come to this area by reasons of the es- tablishment of National Park. ‘Fer sentimental rezsons the Pro- ject is dear to me, but consid- eration must be had for the. per- mapent status of our commer- cial fishermen, PO eerecececcosseccececce FOR THE NAZIS The Gestapo takes no chi said. A.fter for instance, vho_ before to pov had the Socialist party were arrestec if they had given no caus ny kind for suspicion. Thi instinctively — felt are enemies ¢ he erals, all Kiel citi zens been members 0: of acstapo. old-lin Naciis: s socialists do what he had fo: democracy physician said he thought o1 hand that a thorough educa tion in democratic principles mu: provided, on the other hand howe faith in democracy ca be established if found for the problem ity medici unen hope r r solu } homes, curity and care, social ployment Surprisingly, he is that la part of Ge youth is disillusioned about One sided education, ! © blunted its pc convince the constructive thinking tt Ger man youth wouldn ith d awed to do freedor kr if it were now offerc ces, the purge of gen- Hitler’s advent that in Germany, SCOPE s20 GLOBAL IN ° ° | By AHLENE WOLF ator, to wnom the man’s pe AP Newsfeatures Writer sonal property had been turned. NEW YORK, April 27.—Evenjover, knew there was no will. A| if you don’t know a soul in New) few hours after the original cable } York, you have a snd in the}came in, Miss Funnell was able big city in the form of the Inter-|to reply by cable to London. H city Service Bureau of the Com-| Another case was solved with-| munity Service Society. ;out even a phone call. A member; Devoted to helping people sep- of the English armed forces wrote arated by geography to solve in that hé wanted to get in touch their mutual problems, the bu- with his one and only relative— reau has been called upon to do,;an aunt who had emigrated from | and has.done, all the little things’ Austria to America. The service-| a friend’ might do, jman had lost all track of his aunt! In 30 years of the bureau's ex-'for several years. That was one! istence, these little things have case ingwhich the bureau's rou-; included everything from inform: tine checking of its own files of! ,)ing a Detroit war worker that his cases paid off—for there was the child Wag “recovering satisfactor-’ aunt on record as having applied | etily froma tonsil rati jtor..fimanivial...assistance....previ- | that there was no need for him td) ously. {throw up his job: and come eas Case of the Missing Cowboy ‘to sending a duplicate set of ey On the other band, there are | glasses to a Puerto “Rito house-i the long-term headache cases like |wifé. who broke. the.ones: ste got! the rodeo cowboy whom Miss {in {New York, : = Founnell had been chasing for | t the World Service {years after he leftshis ‘wife and | orted by funds donated to|children in England; The cow- CSS, largest private family! boy’s name was Shorty, Miss Fun- ahd health agency in the! nell remembers, and when she United States, the bureau han-| finally caught up with him via {dles an average of four or five) letter, she discovered Shorty was , hundred cases a year. These days,! about feet tall © came however, it has grown a little too: down to her office, resplendent in big for its name, and instead of, his cowboy outfil, handed out being called “Intercity” it should: some free rodeo tickets and cvap- be named “International.” For,! orated again. in war time, it is handling prob-j In the 1920s and 1930s, the bu- lems for clients as widely sepa-|reau disposed of several thousand rated as England and Hawaii. cases a year, Miss Funnel] says, The transportation of American) but the organization of more pub- | troops to 11 corners of the globe | lic welfare agencies who deal di-|{ has provoked problems ‘just as! rectly with these matters cut widespread. Sometimes the prob-!down Intercity’s load. Even with j lems are forwarded by social! the decrease, however, no two agencies in other countries; some-| cases are alike. ¢ times they come directly from the people involved. And they are! solved in anything from an hour} : to several years. { Los Angeles, Calif—April the Recently, for Missi gth is really celebrated in the Margaret Funnell, bureau direc-}~ q es tor, received a cable from the/Earl E. Qusley family. Three of American Relief Society in Lon-;their children, George, 8, Gail, don, inquiring about an Enelish}2, and Dennis, 1, have April the girl's husband who had died in 4th as their birthday ja U. S. hospital without leaving any will. Miss Funnell traced the | dead husband in one morning The hospital told her the body} had been taken to the morgue.! The morgue supplied the name of; > the undertaker who took charge. | The undertaker reported the place | burial, kind of service, and details a wife would like to| And the public adminis- i seven f 4, e e of de A SINGLE BIRTHDATE st 1,1 n J example, Aa A d 0 t n know. RADIO illustrated to the physician when} REPAIRS—48-Hour Service) ISLAND CITY RADIO FREE LECTURE ON En “Chri The Science of D DR. 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The sailors were returned to Key West from Little River un- der an armed guard of shore patrolmen, and yesterday Sheriff ¢ Sawyer asked Commander Gard- | *OF¢es: ner about the men and was told! | Guesses were then made their case would be investigated that the Americans and Rus- by the legal department, with the, sians had met somewhere in result that the sheriff was in- the vicinity of Berlin, but it formed this morning the sailors’ was not until this morni» would be’ placed into his custody. that the juncture was offi- ‘cially announced. REPORTS ON President Truman, in cor imenting on the news, said OLD CLOTHIN that U. S. forces and troops of the Soviet Union had met pa in the heart of Germany and ‘had cut that country in two from east to west, isolating | dwindling Nazi forces in the north and other units in the ;south, While the European \war is not yet over, the \’r ident added, the, end: is: now not far away, because. the Germans at no point have an organized front. An ha } ALMOST THREE TRUCKLOADS 4.“ HAVE BEEN COLLECT- ED IN KEY WEST . e Sam H. Noland, chairman of the Lions club committee in the drive to obtain old clothing to be sent to the needy in. Europe, re ported last night at a meeting of the club that the commitee had| fellow gang collected almost three truckloads. | @bout Despite that unusually gc showing, several Lions said that it is a worthy cause, the thought the drive tinued after April that has been scheduled end of the drive. Enrique Esquinaldo, named last night by Lions as publicity chairman succecd Joe Allen, Yic, v leaves Monday for the West ( for assignment somewhere in Pacific, said that he Lions will continuc get more old .¢lothes. A Lions’ cominittec their ult {/ is now at an end, Presid as should be cor 30, the was the drive ated the following office: Mr. Esquinaldo to election, be epposition Pres first let 4 third, Jer Gerald Saund Cur ud 1use Gai mond Lazici tincz Sam H ing Weste lea ont sin Bulge 16th mandy Ss Genera NEW POLICY THE OCEAN VIEW DINING ROOM Will Be Open’Seven Days Each Week Starting Monday, April 30 (Continued on Page T LIVE POULTRY ROASTERS and Battery Raised FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) POULTRY and EGG MARKET | 1214 White St. Phone 544